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Oregon Tilth Certified!

Deck Family Farm   -   Aug 11, 2010 - By Christine_4

Deck Family Farm is officially Organic and Oregon Tilth Certified ! It was a long process and we have been waiting ever so patiently for this outcome. We now offer Organic Beef, Chicken and Turkeys.     

No Soy! Feed Heritage Pasture Raised Chickens

Deck Family Farm   -   Aug 11, 2010 - By Christine_4

Deck Family Farm is please to bring you our No Soy! Feed Heritage Pasture- Raised Chickens.  We have plenty in stock but they are going fast. Contact us for more information.

Boys just want to have fun

Sweet Harmony Farm   -   Aug 11, 2010 - By Mona

Another wonderful thing about having male alpacas, especially the younger ones, is they play a lot!  They chase each other, climb all over each other, roll around together, nibble each other’s ears and toes, and other general good-natured wrestling. ...

Colvin Family Farm--Week 14

Colvin Family Farm   -   Aug 11, 2010 - By Colvin Farm

Sorry to all you blog readers that I didn't get this up last week! It's been another long, hot, dry week on the mountain--we've been busy getting all of the Fall crops in, and we're trying to hold down the fort watering! I hope you all...

Does the public really know what they are eating? ...

Lone Oak Farms   -   Aug 10, 2010 - By Greg

Do you really know what you are eating? Do you have any idea what’s in your shopping cart? http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/08/14/chopra-interview-july-2010.aspx Sharing for education and our survival. Links of common interest...

Food Safety Rant

Lone Oak Farms   -   Aug 10, 2010 - By Greg

Can you think of any reason friendly to the American peoplefor forcing a law like this? There is a famine coming.The government will make it a crime to hoard food.Mormons, who have always store emergency supplies of food, will be arrested as food hoarders. ...

The Art of Preserving

Cookus Interruptus   -   Aug 10, 2010 - By Cynthia

This week on Cookus Interruptus we are giving away a copy of the new Williams Sonoma book The Art of Preserving.  Enter here. My mouth was watering just reading about pear-cardamom butter, lemon curd, and apple onion chutney.  Clear step-by-step...

Pastured Pork

Beatrix Farm   -   Aug 10, 2010 - By Beatrix Farm

Beatrix Farm will have pastured pork available in late August-early September. You can purchase by the whole hog, half hog, and by the cut after that. Whatever is not ordered and picked up directly from the butcher shop we will have in our freezers. We should...

Fair time & the first harvest

Bloom Where You're Planted Farm   -   Aug 10, 2010 - By Teresa_2

Yesterday was an exciting day, as we harvested the first fruits of this year's labors.  Our county fair is this week so we gathered up our contenders.  We ended up with nine entries between the two of us:  mini pumpkins, small gourds, one...

This has been a brutal season

Miolea Organic Farm   -   Aug 10, 2010 - By Brian_1

This growing season has been brutal in our part of the country.  Nevertheless, I knew we were in for a problem back in the winter.  Over the course of my life, when inquiring about a problem, situation, function, example, question or any other...